Dog Anxiety Cure #1 discovered by Dr Ed, holistic vet: Relaxing Touch!

Wouldn’t be great if there was a simple dog anxiety cure? I believe I’ve discovered one – and it’s simple, easy to learn, and easy to help your pets with, every day. Relaxing touch! Yes, this is a special kind of touch. Normal pats don’t quite have the same deeply relaxing effect as this special kind of touch that I’ve developed, which is part of the Whole Energy Body Balance™ Method, my healing modality for pets, people, and horses.

I always think that the simplest way to explain anxiety is that it’s AROUSAL that is stuck on.

Of course, every anxious animal is experiencing fear and distress emotionally and mentally at the same time. That’s because whatever the thing is that is triggering anxiety is – is something that this dog has decided is scary, life-threatening, and fearful (even if it’s just the sound of a sausage sizzling in the pan). That’s important to understand.

My ‘dog anxiety cure’ works like this. I teach the dog’s humans how to use relaxing touch with them (takes me about 15m to teach you this), and then they give this kind of touch to their dogs for 10-15m twice daily, plus any time the dog gets triggered into anxiety/arousal. You can learn just as effectively with me on Zoom.

Every time you apply relaxing touch to your dog’s body, this triggers a body level relaxation response. Their physiological arousal (fight/flight, adrenaline etc) is switched to relaxation (rest/digest). Their body then will lead the emotions, and the minds fears/worries over time into learning that the ‘scary thing’ is actually nothing to be worried about.

My dog anxiety cure may take a little bit of time – weeks or months – but every time that you practice relaxing touch with your pets, your are teaching their whole body/mind system how to relax, how to self-regulate. This means that over time, your dog will get better at relaxing themselves.

My dog anxiety cure is effective, but that isn’t the whole story – some dogs may need other treatments to help them heal, or to speed up the healing process

 

I don’t only use relaxing touch. I use kind training methods to teach humans how to express and maintain healthy boundaries with their dogs. I use CBD, supplements, diet. I make sure there is no hidden pain, and if there is use bodywork (The Whole Energy Body Balance™ Method, which you can learn how to do yourself at this link) and appropriate pain relief.

And in some cases, where it’s clear to me that it’ll give the best outcomes for the dogs, yes, I will prescribe behavioural drugs. They can be literal lifesavers, though they are never my first port of call. There are so many other effective, safe, natural options that we can explore before giving dogs prescription medications, after all.

However, if an anxious pup needs prescription medications, they often really need them. Often we can use medications as a bridge to helping the dog learn how to relax/regulate. Maybe 6-12 months of medication can be a stepping stone to being free of them. And some dogs, just like some people, do better on long term medications.

If you need a dog anxiety cure, you can book a free evaluation call with me at this link – I’ll go through your dog’s case, work out if I am a good fit to help you, and explain how consultations with me work (Zoom or in-person).

Here’s a video where I talk about his on-screen.

Here’s a link to an article I wrote a while back on this same topic.

An anxious dog I helped with Whole Energy Body Balance™ relaxing touch!